{"id":6583,"date":"2023-03-25T02:21:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T20:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6583"},"modified":"2025-03-27T15:44:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:14:18","slug":"pellet-beam-propulsion-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pellet-beam-propulsion-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Pellet-Beam Propulsion System"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Pellet-Beam Propulsion System:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The pellet-beam concept was partly inspired by the Breakthrough Starshot initiative, which is working on a &#8216;light-sail&#8217; propulsion system.<\/li>\n<li>This system requires <strong>two spacecraft \u2013 one that sets off for interstellar space<\/strong>, and one that goes into orbit around Earth.<\/li>\n<li>The spacecraft orbiting Earth would <strong>shoot a beam of tiny microscopic particles<\/strong> at the interstellar spacecraft.<\/li>\n<li>Those particles would be heated up by lasers, causing part of them to melt into plasma that accelerates the pellets further, a process known as laser ablation.<\/li>\n<li>Those pellets could reach 120 km\/second (75 miles\/second) and either hit the sail of the interstellar spacecraft or repel a magnet within it, helping to propel the spacecraft to huge speeds that would let it whizz out of our heliosphere \u2013 the bubble of the solar wind around our Solar System.<\/li>\n<li>This proposal examines a new propulsion architecture for <strong>fast transit of heavy (1 ton and more) payloads <\/strong>across the Solar System and to the interstellar medium.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a propulsion system?<\/h3>\n<p>Propulsion means to push forward or drive an object forward. A propulsion system is a machine that produces thrust to push an object forward. On airplanes, thrust is usually generated through some application of Newton&#8217;s third law of action and reaction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/radical-nasa-propulsion-concept-could-reach-interstellar-space-in-under-5-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Radical NASA Propulsion Concept Could Reach Interstellar Space in Under 5 Years<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pellet-beamPropulsion System concept was partly inspired by the Breakthrough Starshot initiative, which is working on a &#8216;light-sail&#8217; propulsion system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}